Colorado marijuana shops maintain $136M pace for third straight month

Cannabis shops across the state sold a little more than $136.6 million in flower, edibles, concentrates and accessories for September 2017, according to The Cannabist's calculations on tax statistics released Thursday by the state Department of Revenue.

It's the third month in a row that combined recreational and medical cannabis sales reached $136 million; there were $100.8 million in recreational sales and $35.8 million in medical, The Cannabist's extrapolations show.

Through nine months of 2017, Colorado shops rang up $1.16 billion in transactions, according to The Cannabist's calculations. Through September of last year, sales totaled $974.3 million.